Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757920AbYCCRLk (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:11:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754152AbYCCRL3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:11:29 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57589 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752086AbYCCRL2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Mar 2008 12:11:28 -0500 Message-ID: <47CC310B.8000305@zytor.com> Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 09:10:35 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: "Klaus S. Madsen" , Suspend-devel list , Ingo Molnar , LKML , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: Regression in 2.6.25-rc3: s2ram segfaults before suspending References: <20080228150444.GG17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C6F4F9.90700@zytor.com> <20080228192404.GH17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C70C01.4020605@zytor.com> <20080228194920.GJ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C739A6.5020608@zytor.com> <20080229070028.GK17932@hjernemadsen.org> <47C873AA.6040305@zytor.com> <20080229212654.GL27212@elte.hu> <20080301094525.GQ17932@hjernemadsen.org> <20080303121735.GE28369@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080303121735.GE28369@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 769 Lines: 19 Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> The only thing I don't understand is why this is suddenly a problem with >> 2.6.25, and not with 2.6.24? Is there a bug in 2.6.24 and previously >> that allows real-mode execution of non-executable pages? > > It is strange indeed... Should it be traced as an regression? > Pavel I'd like to understand what the heck happened, but as far as we can observe right now, it's a *progression*, not a regression, since executing out of a non-PROT_EXEC area isn't *supposed* to work... -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/